On Monday 21 June 2004 20:12, John Summerfield wrote: [...] > I perfer the host command for most things: dig's report takes me a > week to decifer! [...] Now I`ve tried it, I am inclined to agree. Somehow, I had remained ignorant of it until just now. [...] > Remember that one way to breach a firewall is to send some email to a > Windows box on the LAN. There's always another unpatched > vulnerability.
Good point. Up till now, we`ve not had samba set up so the windoze laptops have only been able to talk to the adsl, but we intend to set it up. [...] > I see two alternatives. I'll assume that you have some firewall > package installed and setup. > 1. Discover how to disable it. Likely there's a symlink in /etc/rc2.d > that has some relevance. > 2. Remove it. Probably there's a part of it in /etc/init.d that you > might spot. Go through the contents of that directory and learn what > everything there is. > 3. I can't count:-) Identify the package and configure it to grant > the access you want. > > I prefer the third. Mr Bracegirdle's approach has some merit. Thanks for all the help. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
